Grassy Stunt,Ragged Stunt and Tungro Diseases of Rice in Indonesia

Abstract

Grassy stunt disease, ragged stunt virus and rice tungro virus, are among the most widespread and damaging rice diseases in Indonesia. Yield losses due to grassy stunt and the brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) in the period 1974–77 were more than US$510 million. Ragged stunt virus is a new disease which is widespread in Indonesia and has been reported in several rice growing countries in Asia since 1977. Loss figures for ragged stunt are not available, however, individual farmers have suffered 100% yield loss in infected fields. Tungro and grassy stunt are controlled by resistant varieties but there are no commercially available varieties with resistance to ragged stunt.